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Cradle   /krˈeɪdəl/   Listen
noun
Cradle  n.  
1.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. "The cradle that received thee at thy birth." "No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old."
2.
Infancy, or very early life. "From their cradles bred together." "A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles."
3.
(Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
4.
(Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
5.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
6.
(Med.)
(a)
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(b)
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
7.
(Mining)
(a)
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; also called a rocker. (U.S.)
(b)
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
8.
(Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
9.
(Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.


verb
Cradle  v. t.  (past & past part. cradled; pres. part. cradling)  
1.
To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. "It cradles their fears to sleep."
2.
To nurse or train in infancy. "He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars."
3.
To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
4.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle. "In Lombardy... boats are cradled and transported over the grade."
To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.


Cradle  v. i.  To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. "Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled."





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"Cradle" Quotes from Famous Books



... glittering black eyes, was more shocked by me than words can tell. She said your grandma "spoiled me by baby-talk; it was very wrong to let little ones hear baby-talk. If she had had the care of me she would have taught me grammar from the cradle." No doubt of it; but unfortunately I had to grow up with my own father and mother, and ever so many other folks, who were not half as wise ...
— Aunt Madge's Story • Sophie May
... Northern India was the cradle of the present race—the fifth—the Eden of our humanity, our physical, moral, mental, and spiritual mother.[81] From her womb issued the emigrant hordes that peopled Europe after spreading over Egypt, Asia Minor, and Siberia; ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
... while poor Cissy, who has only an affection for horses, indulges in fancies and collapses in disgrace) is too evident a caricature. But the effects of this kind of teaching are painted with a powerful hand, and we see the faculty for joy blighted almost in the cradle. And the lesson is enforced not only by the working man and his family but by Gradgrind's own daughter, who pitilessly convicts her father of having stifled every generous impulse in her and of having sacrificed her on ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
... Nature, though somewhat for his face, which was the best part of his outside: for his inside, it may be said, and without offence, that he was his father's own son, and a pregnant precedent in all his discipline of state: he was a courtier from his cradle, which might have made him betimes; but he was at the age of twenty and upwards, and was far short of his after-proof, but exposed, and by change of climate he soon made show what he was and ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... on his back with a cradle over his injured leg. His face was very white and thin, and greatly changed. The old boyish expression had vanished, there were firm lines round the mouth and a resolute look in the eyes, which had not been there before. A few ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil


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